Thanks, this video was very helpfull as this is my first attempt at winterizing a motor

Oh crap. I never knew about the power steering cooler. Glad I watch that video :)

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Getting close to this time of year again here :( Did anybody happen to save that video, the link is broken now.

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Winterize in September? Shewt it's still summertime !:D

It's great to live where you can sometimes water ski on New Years Eve. :eek_animated:

All I do is drain the block and pull the water hoses and drain them, leave the trim all the way down to let water drain. Then I just reverse it when there is a warm day and I want to use it. Never gets fully winterized.

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Well, I hope I'm a month away from actually doing it. Winter does seem to be coming on us early this year though. Figures it would the first year I own two street bikes and a boat! :)

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Hey Dredd, I'm in the same situation. The trick is to space it out as much as possible for as much fun as we can get. Mine goes like: Boat goes to storage in four weeks and the windshield goes on the bike. Depending how cold it gets early, the bike gets winterized and stored around Thanksgiving. The Camaro goes to storage when the snow starts.Then the countdown starts, 3 1/2 months til the boat comes out of storage.
But, this was a great boating wekend, I hope for four more.

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Hi Dredd, try this new link, click here and hit the play button. If you can't see it, you'll probably need to install "Flash Player" to play it on your browser.

WetWilly

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Winterizing... Would it still be necessary to 'winterize' your boat if it's in a heated shop all winter? I'd think it would be the same as sitting at the dock/lift or trailer. Not that I'm Jewish and don't want to spend the big bucks, but if it doesn't need it, why do it? We just bought a 7 bay shop, so she might be sitting in the heated shop talking to to the plow trucks that just got back ;)

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Depending on how long your off season is I would say about the only thing that the climate control gets you out of is draining the cooling system (which I would personally do anyway because it's not very hard). You're most likely still going to want to pull your battery, change your oils, probably fog your cylinders, etc...

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Thanks. And yes, I would still do the 'obvious' things like change the oils, put the battery on a trickle charger, ect ect.